Requirements Engineering - course outline

Course benefits:

This course prepares candidates to sit the examination for the Certificate in Requirements Engineering.

This certificate is concerned with one of the major areas of business analysis work, producing a well-organised and clearly-defined set of requirements.

The syllabus is structured around a five part framework for Requirements Engineering which is applied to a project initiated by an approved business case. The five elements of the framework are Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Validation, Requirements Documentation and Requirements Management.

The syllabus requires that the candidate should be able to describe the objectives and techniques within each element of the framework.

Organisations can submit their own approaches for accreditation, provided that they show how all aspects of the syllabus are handled in their proposed approach.

Candidates may be expected to apply any of the techniques defined in the syllabus in the examination for this certificate.

Who should attend:

This course is aimed at Business Analysts who wish to gain the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering. Systems analysts and business users will also benefit from attending the course.

Prerequisites:

There are no specific pre-requisites for entry to the examination, however candidates should be suitably prepared and possess the appropriate skills and knowledge to fulfil the objectives.

What you will learn:

Holders of the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering should be able to:

Explain the importance of linking requirements to the Business Case.

Describe the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the requirements engineering processs.

Explain the use of a range of requirements elicitation techniques and the relevance of the techniques to business situations.

Analyse, prioritise and organise elicited requirements.

Document requirements.

Identify problems with requirements and explain how requirements documentation may be improved.

Create a model of the features required from a system.

Interpret a model of the data requirements for an information system.

Describe the principles of Requirements Management and explain the importance of managing requirements.

Describe the use of tools to support Requirements Engineering.

Explain the process and stakeholders involved in Requirements Validation.

How you will learn:

The course comprises short and focused lecture sessions with exercises to practise appropriate techniques. Discussion of the problems and issues experienced by attendees will be encouraged.

The format for the examination is a one hour written (open book) examination based on a business scenario with 15 minutes reading time. Candidates who are awarded a pass for the examination are awarded the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering.